Nvidia's ray tracing technology is finding more and more games, including the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, anyone who buys a new Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card or a pre-built computer with RTX graphics inside will receive Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Nvidia RTX ray tracing first appeared on old WWII battlefields in Battlefield V, and Nvidia had bundled the game with its new maps. Now we come to more advanced battlefields and Nvidia repeats the bundling approach.
The difference is that there are many more graphics cards and computers available for the game. Nvidia will include the game with the following graphics card purchases (or a laptop or desktop equipped with these GPUs):
You can find all the Nvidia details here.
Another test for ray tracing
When Nvidia's RTX appeared alongside Battlefield V, it had to deal with the world of large-scale gaming, and game performance dropped dramatically when RTX was activated. We also saw a reduction in RTX performance in Control, the latest game from Remedy Entertainment.
RTX does a lot to make a game more beautiful and alive, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be a different environment in which you can operate. The fast pace of the Call of Duty fight makes every image count, and optimization will be important. here.
If players get significant frame rate reductions using RTX in Call of Duty, this can be a big deal. But if Nvidia can show that a combination of RTX and DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) produces better images with enough cadence to fight COD, it will be a step forward for the technology.
This is something we will be excited to see, as we learned in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it will be "fully optimized" for PC.